If Africa moved further south, how would we have evolved?

24 May 2009

Part of the show Getting Under Your Skin

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Question

If it happened that the African continent had continued migrating farther south, perhaps ending up somewhere near Antarctica, would that have affected human evolution?

Answer

Nina - The rate at which Africa is moving south is very slow. I doubt that this really would have affected human evolution. The timescale of human evolution is very short compared to the timescale of movement of the African continent.